On this day :
1851 MobyDick published, 1776 Benjamin Franklin takes sides, 2006 Last day for Texas celebrated drivein Pig Stands, 1862 Lincoln approves Burnsides plan, 1951 United States gives military and economic aid to communist Yugoslavia, 1986 Ivan Boesky confesses to illegal stock trading activity, 1985 Volcano erupts in Colombia and buries nearby towns, 1969 Apollo 12 lifts off, 1982 Walesa released from jail, 1941 Cary Grant stars in Hitchcocks Suspicion, 1851 MobyDick is published, 1900 American classical composer Aaron Copland is born in Brooklyn New York, 1882 Franklin Leslie kills Billy The Kid Claiborne, 1959 Kennedy publishes article on television and American politics, 1970 Plane crash devastates Marshall University, 1965 Major battle erupts in the Ia Drang Valley, 1967 Marine general killed in Vietnam, 1972 Nixon promises Thieu that US will continue to support South Vietnam, 1914 Ottoman Empire declares a holy war, 1940 Germans bomb Coventry,
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